Ebay UK total Ban on knives, Where next for UK collectors?

Berkley · 10th February 2009, 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Rich

I suggest our UK brethren use Ebay US and just list their country of origin as US.

Great idea as long as they're willing to take payment in US dollars. That ₤ tends to stand out, though

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Atlantia · 10th February 2009, 11:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Berkley

Great idea as long as they're willing to take payment in US dollars. That ₤ tends to stand out, though

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Way the £ is going we'll soon be accepting payment in chickens or shiny pebbles!

spiral · 11th February 2009, 03:22 PM

A friend of mines just emailed to say hes just had an old bone handled knife pulled off ebay uk, as thier is not any evidence of what type of animal the bone came from!

Crazyier & crazier!

Spiral

asomotif · 11th February 2009, 03:38 PM

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But its going to lose them a huge amount of money and some serious buyers and sellers.
The knee-jerk that scored the own-goal.

Ebay is a big commercial organisation listed in the stock exchange.
So when they are portrayed as a retailer of illegal arms, they will easily change their policy drastically in order to avoid problems with the UK government...

Same as they accept chinese sellers to make big profits on shippingcosts.
if they would ban this chinese way of working they would probably loose their marketshare there. Its'all 'bout the money...

You cannot imagine that this company once started with a private collector who thought it would be nice to have a place for all kinds of collectors to meet.

Personally I am also fed up with ebay.
If you are interested in Borneo it will take you hours to find a single good item between 99,9% rubbisch being sold from certain areas which you can nor exempt in the seatch machine they offer.

Tim Simmons · 11th February 2009, 08:48 PM

Politics aside. Road deaths uk 2008 around 3000, fatal stabbings around 300. You might say stabbings are intentional, I doubt that when talking about most teens, that is a bit like saying all adult bad driving has the intent to kill. I do not know what the answer is. I hate cars, I drive a car 15 years old as I would rather spend my money else where. There is something sickening when the comfortable but ignorant middle ground get motivated like this from all political parties, they do not like to miss a trick when they see one.

All the losses are tragic but not our fault or that of the individual weapon/car involved.

11th February 2009, 03:22 PM	#3
spiral Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,712	A friend of mines just emailed to say hes just had an old bone handled knife pulled off ebay uk, as thier is not any evidence of what type of animal the bone came from! Crazyier & crazier! Spiral

11th February 2009, 08:48 PM	#5
Tim Simmons Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: What is still UK Posts: 5,843	Politics aside. Road deaths uk 2008 around 3000, fatal stabbings around 300. You might say stabbings are intentional, I doubt that when talking about most teens, that is a bit like saying all adult bad driving has the intent to kill. I do not know what the answer is. I hate cars, I drive a car 15 years old as I would rather spend my money else where. There is something sickening when the comfortable but ignorant middle ground get motivated like this from all political parties, they do not like to miss a trick when they see one. All the losses are tragic but not our fault or that of the individual weapon/car involved.